From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>,
Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nsn.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: phram: Make phram 64-bit compatible
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:53:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131007165344.GA10162@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131007174943.GB23337@ld-irv-0074.broadcom.com>
On Mon, 7 October 2013 10:49:43 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>
> [After more research:] It looks like this topic may be the subject of
> some long-past flame wars. If I am digging up past demons, then I'd
> prefer to let sleeping Balrogs lie.
Most of the time it is obvious from context whether you want base-1000
or base-1024 numbers. So in the common case the extra letter is plain
annoying. In less common cases it matters a lot and lack of the extra
letter is rather irritating.
One possible solution would be to have three suffixes. Ki for
base-1024, Kd for base-1000 and K for "I don't care, you decide for
me". But I am sure that would simply cause another round of
flamewars.
It is not a hard technical problem. As a result, noone on this list
has the required expertise to solve it.
Jörn
--
Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is forever.
-- John R. Mashey
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nsn.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: phram: Make phram 64-bit compatible
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:53:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131007165344.GA10162@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131007174943.GB23337@ld-irv-0074.broadcom.com>
On Mon, 7 October 2013 10:49:43 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>
> [After more research:] It looks like this topic may be the subject of
> some long-past flame wars. If I am digging up past demons, then I'd
> prefer to let sleeping Balrogs lie.
Most of the time it is obvious from context whether you want base-1000
or base-1024 numbers. So in the common case the extra letter is plain
annoying. In less common cases it matters a lot and lack of the extra
letter is rather irritating.
One possible solution would be to have three suffixes. Ki for
base-1024, Kd for base-1000 and K for "I don't care, you decide for
me". But I am sure that would simply cause another round of
flamewars.
It is not a hard technical problem. As a result, noone on this list
has the required expertise to solve it.
Jörn
--
Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is forever.
-- John R. Mashey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-07 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-02 16:42 [PATCH] mtd: phram: Make phram 64-bit compatible Alexander Sverdlin
2013-10-04 22:02 ` Jörn Engel
2013-10-07 17:49 ` Brian Norris
2013-10-07 17:49 ` Brian Norris
2013-10-07 16:53 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2013-10-07 16:53 ` Jörn Engel
2013-10-08 16:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-10-08 16:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-10-08 7:46 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2013-10-08 7:46 ` Alexander Sverdlin
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